Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth (18 October 1894 – 15 June 1974), was a British businessman and public servant. At the outbreak of WW1 he was employed as an accountant in Toronto, Canada. He served as a Lieutenant in 134th Battalion CEF 1916/1919. He was wounded in action in France 14 July 1918. Heyworth was chairman of

Imperial Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain. It was formed by the merger of four leading British chemical companies in 1926. Its headquarters were at M ...

and of

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, a company for which he worked for 48 years until his retirement in 1960. He was also a member of the

National Coal Board The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "v ...

. In 1951 he was appointed to a commission, led by Sir Lionel Cohen, set up to look into the issue of taxation on income and profits. Having been

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in 1948, on 25 July 1955 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Heyworth, of Oxton in the County Palatine of Chester, in recognition of his "... public services". He was the lead author of '' The Heyworth Report'' (1965), which led to the establishment of the

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. He was also

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from 1949 to 1950.www.rss.org.uk Past Presidents
Lord Heyworth died in June 1974, aged 79. The barony died with him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heyworth, Geoffrey 1894 births 1974 deaths Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Unilever people Imperial Chemical Industries people Hereditary barons created by Elizabeth II